Thank you, Brad.
Proposal-based funding is always very challenging for friendship centres and other organizations, especially for housing, because housing is a long-term issue and project within our communities. Every year we're having to rewrite proposals. Mostly those proposals are for a maximum of three years. Quite often it's once a year that we're doing them based on our work plans as to what we need within communities.
The purpose of those short-term proposals is not beneficial to communities in the long run. I strongly believe that, when money is out there for our program, important issues like housing need to be longer-term projects so that we can look at guaranteeing that the funding is available for that long term as well, not just for a three-year period before we're back on the ground rewriting those proposals again. I know things change, but we could do those within the proposal writing time as well.